mkempe
Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Natch.
Comment · 8 years ago
nit: "pore over"
Comment · 8 years ago
What a sad spectacle: the delirious lashing out at modern machines, the sarcastic capitals, the unhinged cries of "religion". Next time I chat with Richard we'll have a laugh as I mention how his name is invoked as a shibboleth by rabid Luddites.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like you want to smash capitalism! more than you want to destroy Google and Facebook.
I did notice you're not explicitly opposed to reusable rockets; although you seem to have a special place in hell reserved for Elon Musk. Oversight?
Comment · 8 years ago
Kudos!
If you have a chance to visit their building [edit: in Colorado, near Boulder], and even to take a class with them, it's impressive and great fun.
Comment · 8 years ago
Please get a grip on reality. The average American has access to vastly better products, services, and health care than past kings couldn't even have dreamt of. Even the amazingly wealthy Rockefeller did not have access to the modern bounty that the average American can easily buy and use today, the bounty that is being created by entrepreneurs and people in the corporations you apparently envy so much.
Comment · 8 years ago
Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth.
Search engines, social networks, mobile phones, high-speed Internet, same- and next-day e-commerce, interactive maps, video streaming, 24/7 access to world-wide news and commentary, electric cars, cloud services, solar panels, wind farms, fracking, online banking, fitness monitors, 4K tvs, retina displays, tablets, e-book readers, voice-activated assistants, cleaning robots, advanced medical devices, tailored drugs, reusable rockets, etc. etc. are all created and those who create and finance the creation of these products and services deserve a) our accolades and admiration and b) reaping the rewards of their actions.
Comment · 8 years ago
Mueller appears to be a modern Torquemada. Should every politician be hounded by a nemesis of their own?
In the spirit of "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" -- politicians should be under constant surveillance and at risk of removal and punishment lest they always behave like angels. Isn't this the new standard in Western countries? In China, I have been told Confucian legal scholars recommended the threat of capital punishment for corrupt administrators.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you are interested in the truth, how many of their Democrat colleagues have been shadow banned?
Answer: none. But according to you it "certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation".
Comment · 8 years ago
So, a group of notorious Republican congressmen are trolls and scammers? that's how you believe Twitter makes decisions?
Comment · 8 years ago
Make it a high karma cost. E.g. you must have been upvoted 10 times to be able to downvote once. That cost can climb up for people who generally don't significantly upvote more than they downvote.
[added] I've noticed that sometimes in a deep conversation between only two commenters -- where they cannot downvote each other -- one of them gets their comments downvoted within a minute of posting or so, suggesting that there are parallel accounts used to downvote as a method of intimidation or retaliation.
Comment · 8 years ago
You are claiming that, in response to a news story, the intent to remove a shadow ban applied to notorious Republicans but not to any Democrats is "favoring" Republicans. [added: And you've been upvoted]. Natch.
Comment · 8 years ago
Ok, what do the shadow-banned Republican representatives Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Devin Nunes have in common?
I've noticed that comments (not just mine, by many other accounts) opposed to socialism are often flagged and get a warning they will be banned, while a malicious parent comment that was ideological and offensive but pro-socialism or pro-some-absurd-leftist-cause gets neither flagged nor warned (nor banned).